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Northwest Africa 11888
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11888
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11888
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 307 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 107  (2018)  Diogenite
Recommended:  Diogenite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 520 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 3 Aug 2018
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Writeup from MB 107:

Northwest Africa 11888 (NWA 11888)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2018

Classification: HED achondrite (Diogenite)

Physical characteristics: Dark stone. Cut surface reveals a dark gray interior with a variety of clasts up to cm.

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Brecciated igneous rock with fractured lithic and mineral clasts set in a clastic matrix. The dominant mineral is pyroxene (to 500 um) and plagioclase (to 400 μm). Other minerals: troilite, chromite, silica polymorph, FeNi metal.

Geochemistry: Low-Ca pyroxene shows a wide range of composition from Fs12.9 to Fs47.4, and average Fa26.6±10.0Wo2.8±1.7, FeO/MnO=30.0±1.8 (n=15). Augite exsolution Fs25.2Wo39.2 (n=1). Plagioclase An86.6Ab12.9Or0.5 (N=2)

Classification: Diogenite

Specimens: 30.9 g and a polished section at CEREGE. Main mass with R. Lenssen.

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Place of purchase:Morocco/Western Sahara
Date:P 2018
Mass (g):307
Pieces:1
Class:Diogenite
Weathering grade:minor
Ferrosilite (mol%):25.9±3 (N=4)
Wollastonite (mol%):2.5±0.4
Magnetic suscept.:3.32
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):30.9
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:R. Lenssen
Comments:work name RL02; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca
Institutions
   and collections
CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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     This is 1 of 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)
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